1st Edition
Ritual Journeys in South Asia Constellations and Contestations of Mobility and Space
Foreword, John Eade; Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction. Constellations and Contestations of Mobility and Space in South Asian Ritual Journeys, Christoph Bergmann and Jürgen Schaflechner; 2. In Fear of the Past: The Pilgrimage to Badrinath in Perspective, Hans Jürgen David; 3. Journeying Sovereignties: Ritual Travelling and Networks of Power in a West Himalayan Kingdom, Lokesh Ohri; 4. Wandering God. How young Himalayans Negotiate Religion, Caste Identity and Modernity, Karin M. Polit; 5. Places, Rituals and Past Worlds: Encounters on a Tibetan Pilgrimage in North India, Nike-Ann Schröder; 6. Ritual Displacement as Process of Constructing and De-constructing Boundaries in a Sufi Pilgrimage of Pakistan, Michel Boivin; 7. "To Worship Our ‘Boss’ (the Buddha):" Youth Religiosity in a Popular Pilgrimage Site in Sri Lanka, Premakumara De Silva; 8. Vailankanni Mata and Anglo-Indian Catholics: Rising Postcolonial Devotion and Her Unlikely Pilgrim Devotees, Robyn Andrews and Brent Howitt Otto; 9. Muslim-Marathi Pilgrimage: The Sufi-shrine of Visalga¿h, Deepra Dandekar; 10. Approaches to Pilgrimage: Reading Some Post-Independence Pilgrimage Accounts in Modern South Asian Languages, Hans Harder; 11. Afterword: On Pilgramage and Plural Paradigms, Simon Coleman
Biography
Christoph Bergmann is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Jürgen Schaflechner is an assistant professor in the Department of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
